Sub-Saharan Africa

The Ironman triathlon series has announced that the 2018 edition of its 70.3 World Championship will be staged in the South African municipality of Nelson Mandela Bay.

The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has confirmed that England, Belgium and South Africa will host the semi-finals of its World League national team tournament next summer.

World Rugby has today (Tuesday) confirmed France, Ireland and South Africa as host candidates for its 2023 World Cup, as Argentina firmed up its proposed bid for the 2027 edition of rugby union’s showpiece national team tournament.

Kenya’s team leader at the 2016 summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil has been charged with stealing $256,000 (€288,000) from government and sports authorities.

The World Rallycross Championship motor-racing series has announced that it will stage its first event in Africa after agreeing a multi-year deal with the Killarney race circuit in Cape Town, South Africa.

Golf’s European Tour is looking into the possibility of adding a fourth South African tournament to next year’s programme of events after announcing the early part of its 2017 international schedule.

SA Rugby, the governing body of rugby union in South Africa, has filed an applicant submission to host the 2023 Rugby World Cup despite having been told by the country’s government that it is not allowed to bid for the tournament.

The Ironman triathlon series has acquired South African mountain bike race the Cape Epic as part of its plans to develop a global series of dedicated mountain biking events.

The investigatory chamber of Fifa’s Ethics Committee has today (Wednesday) recommended a ban of no less than six years for former South African Football Association (SAFA) president Kirsten Nematandani, along with life bans for two other African football officials, in the latest development concerning the match-fixing scandal surrounding national team friendly games staged ahead of the country’s hosting of the 2010 World Cup.

Michael Rotich, manager of the Kenyan athletics team at the 2016 summer Olympic Games, has been provisionally suspended by the Ethics Board of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), while a sprinting coach at the centre of another doping incident has protested his innocence after returning home.

The Kenyan Olympic Committee (KOC) has ordered a sprinting coach to return home from the summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro after he posed as an athlete and gave a urine sample to drug testers, while Chinese swimmer Chen Xinyi and Bulgarian runner Silvia Danekova have both reportedly failed doping tests.

Four more South African cricketers, including former international player Thami Tsolekile, have been banned from the sport for conspiring to fix matches in the 2015 edition of domestic Twenty20 competition the T20 Challenge Series.

The Anti-Doping Agency of Kenya (ADAK) has said it will investigate fresh allegations concerning doping in the Kenyan athletics system.

Organisers of the annual Rugby Championship, which features rugby union’s top four southern hemisphere national teams, are set to explore the possibility of staging more games in the northern hemisphere.

Cricket South Africa (CSA) is to introduce racial quotas as part of a wider effort to address concerns over a lack of transformation across some of the country’s national sports teams.

UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) have said they are cooperating to investigate allegations that athletes have been provided with prohibited substances while training in Kenya, while the Ethics Board of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has rejected appeals lodged against suspensions by three senior Kenyan athletics officials.